Hodjanernes Blog

29 juni 2006

Al Gores navn taget af plakaten

Al Gores nye film “An Inconvenient Truth” sælger ikke, så Gores navn er taget af plakaten, idet man mener det skræmmer kunderne væk.

Drudge Report via Gegenstimme

Uanset dette vil vi inden længe se DR, TV2 og medløbere give Connie Hedegaard, Al Gore og filmen al den PR, de kan. Hvilket held for Hedegaard, den konservative politiker, at blive associeret med DR’s darling Gore. Det kan godt komme til at skæppe i stemmekassen.

Mere om filmen her og mere om Blålyset Connie Hedegaard

Tyrkiets premierminister til Europarådet: Anstiftelse til Islamfjendtlighed skal gøres til forbrydelse mod menneskeheden

Ligesåvel som antisemitisme er en forbrydelse mod menneskeheden skal islamofobi også være det, siger Erdogan til Europarådet, med henvisning til Muhammed-affæren. Muhammedkrisen viser en stigende polarisering mellem den vestlige og den islamiske verden. Den islamiske verden følere mere og mere at dens værdier angribes af vesten.

Tænk jeg troede, det var lige omvendt. Og hvad angår antisemitisme, så er der vistnok lige et par muslimske kolleger Erdogan skal have en snak eller to med. Hvad er den mand? Spydspids for den muslimske verden eller ansøger til Europa?

Mere på Networld

OPDATERING 2/7:

»Ytringsfriheden bør ikke være ubegrænset. Der må være nogle undtagelser og nogle grænser. De grænser skal defineres, så det ikke kan tillades at fornærme personer med en anden trosretning. Den nylige krise på baggrund af karikaturtegningerne og de efterfølgende internationale reaktioner er et klart eksempel på dette. Jeg ønsker igennem Alliancen af Civilisationer at få videnskabsmænd med forstand på politiske og sociale forhold til at undersøge, hvordan man kan definere grænser for ytringsfriheden, så fornærmelser ikke kan accepteres,« siger Erdogan i et interview med Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten i forbindelse med sit besøg ved Europarådet i Strasbourg i denne uge.

Jyllands-Posten

Politikens læsere rasende

Kvalmende, chauvinistisk

Skriver læserne om et fotografi avisen har bragt af Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Billedet viser hende uden hoved, hvilket måske ikke er så mærkeligt endda.

Nå men hvis man kan hidse Politikens læsere op – vil jeg da meget gerne være med

 thorning-schmidt-kongres-2005-w.jpg

Bemærk at hovedet skam er med – både forfra og bagfra – så der er ikke noget at komme efter.

Kulturberigelsens konsekvenser

Nævningeformand truet

Formanden for nævningene blev under den store sag om æresdrab udsat for trusler og hærværk i form af ødelagte cykler og truende opkald til sine forældre

Kan ødelægge retssystemet

– Det siger sig selv, at det ikke er rart med den slags oplevelser. Jeg har dømt i mange sager, også rockersager. Men altid følt, at der var en respekt for retssystemet, herunder lægdommerne. Det gør jeg ikke i denne sag. Jeg er bange for, at den manglende respekt, der stammer fra en helt anden kultur, kan ødelægge hele vores retssystem. Det kan blive svært at finde nogen, der vil stille op til den slags, siger Per Thim, der selv har fået funktionen efter at være politisk aktiv i Venstre.

– Det kan ikke være meningen, at jeg skal kigge mig over skulderen. Men det er desværre sådan det er endt.

Læs mere på Ekstrabladet

Tre selvmord blandt nogle voldsforherligende krigsforbrydere får de venstreorienterede og politisk korrekte til at gå i selvsving

De 3 selvmord på Guantanamo fik medierne og de Bush-hadende politisk korrekte til at gå i selvsving over amerikanernes ‘tortur’ og dårlige behandling af de religiøse fanatikere og krigsforbrydere, selvom der rent statistisk vil være en selvmordsfrekvens blandt de kun 460 fanger i lejren, der egentlig burde være højere.

Men hvor bliver denne overskrift fra Jyllands-Posten fra idag af i for eksempel Politiken eller DR? Det er helt sikkert, at hvis der var endnu en forbryderspire, der var død på Guantanamo, havde de været der.

130.000 indiske bønder har begået selvmord

Iøvrigt påfaldende, at der stadig ikke er nogen, der omtaler den israelske soldat som fransk statsborger.

US Senate Comittee on Environment & Public Works skriver om Al Gore’s ny film, som har fået Connie Hedegaard til at invitere ham til Danmark

The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy” by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP’s bias and methodology.

AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”

In the interest of full disclosure, the AP should release the names of the “more than 100 top climate researchers” they attempted to contact to review “An Inconvenient Truth.” AP should also name all 19 scientists who gave Gore “five stars for accuracy.” AP claims 19 scientists viewed Gore’s movie, but it only quotes five of them in its article. AP should also release the names of the so-called scientific “skeptics” they claim to have contacted.

The AP article quotes Robert Correll, the chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group. It appears from the article that Correll has a personal relationship with Gore, having viewed the film at a private screening at the invitation of the former Vice President. In addition, Correll’s reported links as an “affiliate” of a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm that provides “expert testimony” in trials and his reported sponsorship by the left-leaning Packard Foundation, were not disclosed by AP. See http://www.junkscience.com/feb06.htm

The AP also chose to ignore Gore’s reliance on the now-discredited “hockey stick” by Dr. Michael Mann, which claims that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere remained relatively stable over 900 years, then spiked upward in the 20th century, and that the 1990’s were the warmest decade in at least 1000 years. Last week’s National Academy of Sciences report dispelled Mann’s often cited claims by reaffirming the existence of both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. See Senator Inhofe’s statement on the broken “Hockey Stick.” (http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=257697 )

Gore’s claim that global warming is causing the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro to disappear has also been debunked by scientific reports. For example, a 2004 study in the journal Nature makes clear that Kilimanjaro is experiencing less snowfall because there’s less moisture in the air due to deforestation around Kilimanjaro.

Here is a sampling of the views of some of the scientific critics of Gore:

Professor Bob Carter, of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia, on Gore’s film:

“Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.”

“The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science.” Bob Carter as quoted in the Canadian Free Press, June 12, 2006

Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, wrote:

“A general characteristic of Mr. Gore’s approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse.” – Lindzen wrote in an op-ed in the June 26, 2006 Wall Street Journal

Gore’s film also cites a review of scientific literature by the journal Science which claimed 100% consensus on global warming, but Lindzen pointed out the study was flat out incorrect.

A study in the journal Science by the social scientist Nancy Oreskes claimed that a search of the ISI Web of Knowledge Database for the years 1993 to 2003 under the key words “global climate change” produced 928 articles, all of whose abstracts supported what she referred to as the consensus view. A British social scientist, Benny Peiser, checked her procedure and found that only 913 of the 928 articles had abstracts at all, and that only 13 of the remaining 913 explicitly endorsed the so-called consensus view. Several actually opposed it. – Lindzen wrote in an op-ed in the June 26, 2006 Wall Street Journal.

Roy Spencer, principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, wrote an open letter to Gore criticizing his presentation of climate science in the film:

Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930’s…before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don’t you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?” – Roy Spencer wrote in a May 25, 2006 column.

Former University of Winnipeg climatology professor Dr. Tim Ball reacted to Gore’s claim that there has been a sharp drop-off in the thickness of the Arctic ice cap since 1970.

“The survey that Gore cites was a single transect across one part of the Arctic basin in the month of October during the 1960s when we were in the middle of the cooling period. The 1990 runs were done in the warmer month of September, using a wholly different technology,“ Tim Ball said, according to the Canadian Free Press.

Kilde via Greenie Watch

Connie – tror du ikke, du skulle tænke dig om endnu en gang, før du indlader dig i Gores propaganda-korstog, som ikke synes at have så meget med miljø og videnskab at gøre, som noget helt andet.

Mere om Al Gore og Bjørn Lomborg og drivhuseffekten..